# Fonts Like Pavanam

12 open fonts whose letters are closest to Pavanam, ranked by a glyph comparison. All free for commercial use.

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Pavanam is Pontano Sans (similarity 96), then Gothic A1 and Special Gothic. Pontano Sans is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is free for commercial use.

## Ranked Open Lookalikes (12 Fonts)

| Rank | Font | Similarity Score | Licence | Details |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| #1 | **Pontano Sans** | 96 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/pontano-sans/](/fonts/pontano-sans.md) |
| #2 | **Gothic A1** | 81 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/gothic-a1/](/fonts/gothic-a1.md) |
| #3 | **Special Gothic** | 80 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/special-gothic/](/fonts/special-gothic.md) |
| #4 | **Public Sans** | 79 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/public-sans/](/fonts/public-sans.md) |
| #5 | **Roboto Flex** | 79 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/roboto-flex/](/fonts/roboto-flex.md) |
| #6 | **Libre Franklin** | 79 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/libre-franklin/](/fonts/libre-franklin.md) |
| #7 | **Inter Tight** | 79 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/inter-tight/](/fonts/inter-tight.md) |
| #8 | **Almarai** | 78 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/almarai/](/fonts/almarai.md) |
| #9 | **Pretendard** | 78 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/pretendard/](/fonts/pretendard.md) |
| #10 | **Zalando Sans** | 77 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/zalando-sans/](/fonts/zalando-sans.md) |
| #11 | **Istok Web** | 77 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/istok-web/](/fonts/istok-web.md) |
| #12 | **Heebo** | 77 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/heebo/](/fonts/heebo.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Asta Sans** (Kore): Similarity 77, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/asta-sans/](/fonts/asta-sans.md)

## Scoring Method

62 letters and digits (A-Z a-z 0-9) rendered at 160px cap height on a 32x32 grid with 3px gaussian blur, combined with edge-orientation texture (15% weight). Scores are normalized so that 0 represents an average pair of fonts across the 1571 compared fonts, and 100 represents identical letter shapes. Computed on 2026-10-22 using glyph-shape + edge-texture v2.

## Machine API

JSON representation available at [/api/fonts-like/pavanam.json](/api/fonts-like/pavanam.json).